The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-08-26

| lu0 N0tlOU0i Agricultural 1xDOSl
tion, for which q magnificent new
building, $50 by 255 feet, has been cree
ted will open at Kansas, City Septem-
Der Is and remain open until NOvem
Der l. The management offer $500
premium for the best agricultural and
horticultural display made by any
county and 800 for the second best.
Now what we want Is to see Allen
county take one of those premiums
We can do it just as we'll as not. 1t is
doubtful if any county in Kansas has
had more successful season, and we
can certainly make display that can
get up close to the head Of the process.
sion. Our own Fair is held September
Is and 16. Those who bring fruits OF
farm products to it will no doubt be
willing to donate their samples to the
Horticultural society and they could be
boxed up and sent to Kansas City the
next day. Space can be secured in the
Exhibition building for from SO toSlOO
and this should be seen to at once. It
will cost some money, but we are sure
the business men of lola, Hum boldt
and Moran would gladly contribute to
it. For whether we take any prem
iums or not, the bare fact of having a
display there will be worth, as an
advertisement of the county, many
times what it cost. Let the matter be
taken in hand at once. Allen county
has been specially favored this year,
and we ought to take advantage Ofthe
fact i'm every possible way.
The law provides that the assessors
of the various townships shall make
out their assessment rolls each year
from the books at the treasurer's of
flee. 1t this were done the treasurer
would be greatly incOnvenienced by
the presence of q dozen or go men in
his Office for a week or more, the rolls
would doubtless be inaccurate. and the
expense:.wOuid be not less than $500.
1t has therefore been the custom of our
Commissioners for many years to en-
plOy the county clerk to make ont
these rolls. and they have allowed hiu,
therefor 500. Capt. Kelsey knows
this perfectly well, and we were sur
prised to read his letter in the last
Humboldt Union insinuating that the
500 which Mr.. Duffy drew for this
work was a steal. We are not the
special champion of Mr.. Duffy In his
political aspirations, but We don't like
to see any man unjustly aspersed. Mr..
Kelsey is alsO.in error in intimating
that the rate of taxation is rapidly in
creasing in humboldt township. AS a
matter of fact the levy for that town.
ship is 81 so less on the thousand than
it was last year.
We understand there is an impress
sion in some parts of the county that
the recent order of the secretary of the
Interior restoring certain railroad
idemnity lands to the public domain,
affects lands in this county. This is
not true There are no idemnity lands
in this county except the M. X. & T.
odd sections. These lands have been
patented to the railroad company and
the United States Supreme Court has
decided the patent to be valid. The
Secretary of the Interior would have
no more authority tn set this patent
aside and restore the land to the pub
lie domain than he would have to en-
ter into the REGISTER Office and de-
clare its type and presses public pro-
perry. The land referred to in recent
dispatches is land which the roads
claiming them have never earned and
to..which theyhave received no patent,
and i'm restoring them to the public
domain the Secretary is simply acting
under general laws.
The circus men thought the joke was
on d. Simms. They asked him If he
wouldn't exchange a five-dOllar bill
for some silver. lie handed them the
bill, whereupon they found they didn't
need it after all and gave it back to
him. At least ID. thought they gave
it back to him until the next day
when he found he was carrying one
dollar bill. He took the afternoon
train for Uniontown where he found
the circus in full blast. He soon found
the manager who gladly refunded the
four dollars and good round sum for
expenses and trouble. And now Mr..
Simms thinks the joke is on the circus
men. The manager very frankly told
not part of the show. vet they paid
him certain percentage, he agreeing
to settle all such affairs as this.
In January when the Ewing vs Ben
ton contest case came before the Dis
trict Court, the defendant moved to
strike out the plaintiffs bill of excep-
tons. The Judge has had the motion
under advisement until the present
term when he rendered a decision
sustaining the motion as to parts of the
bill, and overriding it as to other
parts. This leaves the case in rather
peculiar position and we don't know
what the next move will he. The
District Court has not yet rendered any
opinion touching the merits of the
case.
We publish on our last page resOlu-
tions passed by the Ncosho county re-
publican convention endorsing Judge
Stillwell's course upon the bench and
urging his reelection for the ensuing
term. The resolutions will be heartily
approved, not only by the republicans
but by the great majority of the demo.
Gratis, we believe, in the whole district. |
Judge Stillwell has fairly earned the
compliment of q unanimous reelection
and 1t looks now as though he would
receive it.
Workmen are busy this week at the
Carriage Works setting up the 4O-horse
power engine, drill, planer, saws and
other machinery lately received. All
of these machines are of the very
latest designs and when they are IN
running order the company will be
able to manufacture much of the
material which it has heretofore bought
in the east. We haye waited a long
time to see smoke coming from the big
chimney; but the end of the waiting
is at hand. Let US rejoice.
THE PLACE to buy goods is where
they keen them to sell. I carry the